Devour

What does it mean when you dream about devouring something?

Being eaten in a dream can reflect our feelings of being “eaten up” by someone or by the demands of our lives. If we are the devourer, then it can indicate that we are hungering for something, or that we are possessive. Being swallowed whole by a large creature is a widespread shamanic motif for personal transformation (e.g., Jonah and the whale). (See also Eating, Hunger).

In Blake's equation above, the war between the Devourer and the Prolific must be eternal, otherwise human existence enters an extinction course; religion, by trying to reconcile the two types, favours the extinction of the human race.

the hyena, hermaphroditic self-eating devourer of the dead, trailer of calving cows, hamstringer, potential biter-off of your face at night while you slept, sad yowler, camp-follower, stinking, fowl, with jaws that crack the bones that the lion leaves, belly dragging, loping away on the brown plain, looking back, mongrel dog-smart in the face; wack from the little Mannlicher and then the horrid circle starting.

Here, the innocuous visage of Frank has been replaced with a string of grotesque and disfigured female portraits like those of the "Face Eater" (2004)--a macabre union of Francis Bacon and George Condo--and "The Devourer," plastic, malleable hybrids who possess the ability to simultaneously destroy and regenerate themselves.

In fact, when characterizing the iconic regime in terms of the relationship between these two variables and the cannibal impulse, it is plausible to recur to two founding myths of the Greco-Christian culture, which seem to rule as dominant figures in the desiring machines of current capitalism: the myth of Cronos the devourer, and the myth of Satan, seen by Dante as the great Cannibal through whose belly all unredeemed sinners are to pass, those who today may be described as the excluded, the radically others, the inhabitants of the hell produced by the everyday life ruled by capital.

There it could be waylaid by scorching fires, poisonous snakes, wild animals and worst of all the Devourer - a demon with the head of a crocodile, the body of a lion and the hindquarters of a hippopotamus.

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